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On Thursday 13 October 2005 05:15 pm, Alexey Asprov wrote: |
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> Thanks for your reply. So, if that were your system, how much space you |
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> would give to /boot /swap / ( eliminating /opt) /home /var /tmp and /usr? |
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> I just need rough numbers, so that my fresh install wouldn't get in |
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> trouble. I have 256 RAM and this is 10GIGs. Thanks again. |
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General rule of thumb is swap = 2 x ram, so 512mb swap. |
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That will leave about 9.25 gb left (must account for partitioning overhead). |
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I would probably do as follows: |
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/home - 2gb |
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/var - 1gb, rebind a section as /tmp to keep it all under this partition. |
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Assumes you are not using the PORT_LOGDIR option, if you are add another 1gb. |
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/usr/portage - 1gb but you'll need to clean out distfiles regularly. |
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Whatever is left goes to / |
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Note that regardless of your partitioning, you're going to want to be very |
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selective over what is installed on the system. For example, choose gnome or |
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kde, but not both (and set appropriate disabling use flags), or better yet a |
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thinner window manager like icewm or something without the bulk/overhead of |
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gnome/kde (which will struggle anyway due to low memory). |
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My system is allocated as: |
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cornholio src # df -h |
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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/dev/hda2 13G 7.6G 5.2G 60% / |
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/dev/hda1 99M 46M 49M 49% /boot |
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/dev/sda3 2.8G 356M 2.4G 13% /tmp |
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/dev/hdb1 3.9G 2.2G 1.7G 57% /var |
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/dev/sda2 3.9G 1.3G 2.6G 33% /var/tmp |
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/dev/hdc1 29G 23G 6.6G 78% /var/spool/news |
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/dev/hdb4 4.9G 3.3G 1.7G 67% /home |
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/dev/hdb2 3.9G 742M 3.1G 19% /usr/portage |
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/dev/sdb1 8.5G 463M 8.1G 6% /backup |
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